I Know What You Did Last Summer [1997]

Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Jennifer Love Hewitt	Julie James
Sarah Michelle Gellar	Helen Shivers
Ryan Phillippe	Barry William Cox
Freddie Prinze Jr.	Ray Bronson
Bridgette Wilson	Elsa Shivers
Anne Heche	Melissa Egan
Johnny Galecki	Max Neurick
Muse Watson	Benjamin Willis
Stuart Greer	David Caporizo
J. Don Ferguson	Emcee

Director	Jim Gillespie
Producer	Stokely Chaffin; Erik Feig
Writer	Lois Duncan; Kevin Williamson

Just what the world needs, another riff on that post-Psycho horror cliché: the slasher movie. In this version, which considerably dumbs down the Lois Duncan book, the bad guy chases naughty teenagers with a hook, all the while dressed as a dark version of the Gorton's fisherman. They seem to have killed someone in a car accident while out partying, and a price must be paid. Nothing new is added to the genre by I Know What You Did Last Summer, though it would be unfair not to note that this does have some scary moments. That is about all it has, because as much as this wanted to be another Scream, it hasn't the heart or the script. It does, however, have the requisite cast of small-screen stars (including Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt and Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar) to have snagged box-office success, spawning a sequel. --Rochelle O'Gorman